Measuring Equity Through City Trees
Planting trees is a way to build community and bolster benefits to human and environmental health.
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An Ecological Civilization: The Path We’re On
“An Ecolological Civilization: The Path We’re On” was a YES! Presents online conversation held on February 25, 2021. It was produced in partnership with YES! Media and the Institute for Ecological Civilization.
Reclaimed Water Could Be the Solution to Farming in a Drier Future
A California farm is making sure wastewater no longer goes to waste.
Europe Reduces Waste by Guaranteeing the Right to Repair
Legislation is pushing back against a waste-based economy by requiring companies to help customers fix their appliances and electronics.
Baking Homemade Bread Becomes a Public Good
The Seattle-based Community Loaves project enlists home bakers to help those facing food insecurity during the pandemic.
Cities Across Europe Are Making Space for Nature
Through the process of rewilding, cities can improve both human and environmental health.
Donations to Black-Led Food and Land Organizations Shift from Charitable Giving to True Reparations
Transferring wealth to Black-led groups is a particularly potent form of reparations with immediate benefits to communities of color.
In a World on Fire, Is Nonviolence Still an Option?
“How To Blow Up a Pipeline” is not in fact a manual, but rather a treatise inviting the climate movement to widespread sabotage and property destruction, and it is surprisingly compelling.
How to Bring Nature Into Your Daily Life
The key is to make it feel like a daily gift.
How To Awaken Our Ecological Psyche
Rekindle the deep memory of where we come from.
The Gift of Ecological Humility
These Afro-Indigenous practices challenge ideas of human supremacy.
Reclaiming Our Common Home
Expand the commons to include everything we need.
A Nearly True Story: The Tale of the Hamlet
Sometime in the future of the After Times, a group of neighbors relearn how to grow food in community—and feel joy amid uncertainty.
Living Ecologically Is Illegal
The Rights of Nature movement offers a solution.
What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like?
A society based on natural ecology might seem like a far-off utopia—yet communities everywhere are already creating it.
Toward an Ecological Civilization
The path toward an ecological civilization moves us from an uncivilized society based on selfish wealth accumulation to one that is community-oriented and life-affirming.
Pipelines Make Uncomfortable Neighbors in Appalachia
Residents face the threat of disasters, construction noise, and loss of control over their land.
The Enchantment of Ceremony
An Indigenous writer describes how ritual is the entryway to connection and wholeness.
Strengthening Communities and Shifting Power in Pursuit of a Just Transition
How two grassroots, BIPOC-led coalitions are helping to democratize the climate justice space.
It’s a Sign: How to Keep Climate Communications Compelling
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, on benign visual interventions in physical space.
Returning to the Roots of Community Resilience in Hawai‘i
Local agriculture initiatives offer a way toward food security through reconnection with the land and the true spirit of aloha.
Water Protectors Hold Their Ground in Wild Rice Country
A report from occupied Palisade, where Water Protectors confront a dying, but still deadly, energy behemoth.
How Art Can Help Cultivate Climate Resilience
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad.
Why “Solarpunk” Gives Me Hope for a More Sustainable Future
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad.
Harnessing People Power to Protect Alaska’s Last Remaining Wilderness
A new social movement is bringing together Indigenous activists and TikTok creators to prevent drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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